Lamar Hunt

Lamar Hunt (2 August 1932-13 December 2006) was an American businessman notable for his promotion of football, soccer, basketball, tennis, and ice hockey. Born in El Dorado, Arkansas in 1932, the son of oil tycoon H.L. Hunt and a member of a dynasty of Republican businessmen, he was one of the founding investors of the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association, co-founder of the World Championship Tennis circuit, one of the original owners of the old North American Soccer League, and a founding investor of Major League Soccer. In 1969, he failed to turn Alcatraz into an amusement park, and he was involved in a notorious silver deal with his brothers which came close to cornering the worldwide market during the 1970s. He died in 2006.